Example sentences of "[vb past] they and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 2 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 3 | That was me and Desmond , we duplicated them and he printed them out for something like £150 each . |
| 4 | I read them and they seem to be er a a direct record of what we 'd er agreed . |
| 5 | Last year , remember , she did up some of the bedrooms and had them decorated , her brother decorated them and also she did the erm the tables , remember , she stripped back some tables and varnished them and she made a lovely job . |
| 6 | And I got them and I did ! |
| 7 | I do n't where she got them and I did n't ask ! |
| 8 | Bits yes well Georgina round the corner apparently she has the lot new , because the bank moved them and they paid her and it was over four hundred pounds . |
| 9 | and I , I went home , phoned them and he said well , I got , there 's nobody there , try he said between five and six that 's his lunch hour , so I phoned , could n't get , oh no I , I thought well it 'll be too if I do n't get so I took it home |
| 10 | I designed them and I service them . |
| 11 | I used them and they worked for me . |
| 12 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 13 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 14 | This did n't bother Kenny at all as he more or less ignored them and they did the same to him . |
| 15 | So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack . |
| 16 | He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’ |
| 17 | The electorate rejected them and they put that before the quality services and the social responsibility that we have as Councillors , not just to ourselves and our wards , but to the whole district and the community as Councillor continually reminds us . |
| 18 | But they added them and nobody told me . |
| 19 | Marie-Claire and Monique learned little English because Frederica intimidated them and they intimidated her . |
| 20 | Many involved with its setting up feel deeply unhappy that they were misled when it was set up because the Government encouraged them and they believed that they would get direct financial support . |
| 21 | Some days Luiza , Freddi and Alfred joined them and they began to walk her through parts of the productions . |
| 22 | Shildon joined them and they had a comic argument over the relative merits of writing about the event for the business section , the gossip column or the news pages . |
| 23 | The dress slipped to her narrow hips where it remained supported by his hands , until he raised them and it fell to the floor and her body gleamed naked . |
| 24 | not particularly my cup of tea but mum enjoyed them and they got everybody going and and then we had a good game of bingo . |
| 25 | And now that Donald 's name was on the militia list , the thought of being parted obsessed them and they made love as though each time was the last time . |
| 26 | And I pulled them and it went wrong . |
| 27 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 28 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
| 29 | And that satisfied them and it satisfied me . |
| 30 | yeah , but she selected them and she got |